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Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Jul 3 12:25pm | Replies (41)Comment receiving replies
I was diagnosed with left CHF 2 weeks ago. Have been on Diuretic and Entresto for 2+ weeks waiting on CT Calcium Score Scan and Follow-up with Doc. Seems everything takes so long and very little education is provided when first diagnosed. I have been worried, researching, scared, and more while I wait. Thank goodness for sites like the Cleveland Clinic.com and others to give me information. I find that Salt is the Killer and too much liquid intake. Such a lifestyle change. I think managing this newly illness is the hardest part … living with a chronic condition is hard enough with my past of chronic asthma and irregular heartbeat already. Just because it seems to be a common diagnosis nowadays isn’t good reason for doctors to treat it so lightly. I hope to get a nutritionist and I guess a fitness regimen. What do you all do?
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@marilynawilson47 Right on, Marilyn. I, too, have CHF There are many disorders which cause this, including myeloma and others. Oh, well. Even the docs I see don't have a clue, so I just pretend this makes me smarter than them, if not wealthier. I tried one time to name and identify all the locations of cancers I have in my body. I was going to have my wife massage them all for me, and maybe that would help. But then I became afraid she might massage the white matter cancer in my brain with a baseball bat, so I settled on massaging my lips with hers. Simpler, cheaper, smarter. oldkarl
With CHF symptoms-SOB, fatigue, along with irregular heart rate, and preserved ejection factor, you should ask your physician to also test for cardiac amyloidosis
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Oh, I forgot to say in my Post that my ejection fraction was 45%.